Level IV: Ft. Sanders NC-1
12-E-19-HZ
Approved
Recommendation
Staff recommends approval of the demolition as proposed, with the clarification that this approval is after-the-fact and future proposed demolitions must be reviewed on the front end for physical condition, architectural integrity, and their effect on the National Register Historic District.Applicant Request
Other: Demolition- After-the-fact review of demolition of the house. All historic elements of the house have been removed, including foundation, structural sheathing (likely original or historic wood siding), interior flooring and framing systems, exterior siding, and window and door fenestrations.
Ft. Sanders NC-1
- Style: Folk Victorian, c.1920
- House demolished from property was a one-story residence, resting on a brick foundation, with a hipped-roof clad in asphalt shingles, with smaller gable-roof massings projecting towards the front, west, and south. House was clad in flush wood siding, with a hipped-roof porch supported by turned wood columns on the northeast corner of the house. Windows were one-over-one, double-hung sash.
- Style: Folk Victorian, c.1920
Applicable Guidelines
Fort Sanders NC-1, adopted by the Knoxville City Council on September 13, 2000.
See Guidelines- J. Demolition
- Property owners may demolish structures in the NC-1 District that the Knoxville Historic Zoning Commission (HZC) finds to be non-contributing to the district. A report, dated July/August 2000, establishes the location of non-contributing structures at the time that the NC-1 district was under consideration. In the future, the Historic Zoning Commission shall take the following into account in making their determination about whether or not a building may be demolished.
- 1. Physical Condition: The HZC may allow demolition of a building has been condemned by the City of Knoxville for structural reasons, or if the HZC finds that structural problems and associated costs to address the problems warrant demolition; the decision shall be based on an assessment by a licensed structural engineer or architect.
- 2. Architectural Integrity: The HZC may allow demolition if the original design is so compromised that historic architectural integrity is lost and cannot, in the Commission's view, be reasonably re-established.
- Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation (applicable as the property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places)
- 2. The historic character of a property will be retained and preserved. The removal of distinctive materials or alteration of features, spaces and spatial relationships that characterize a property will be avoided.
- 3. Each property will be recognized as a physical record of its time, place and use. Changes that create a false sense of historical development, such as adding conjectural features or elements from other historic properties, will not be undertaken.
- 4. Changes to a property that have acquired historic significance in their own right will be retained and preserved.
- 5. Distinctive materials, features, finishes and construction techniques or examples of craftsmanship that characterize a property will be preserved.
- 6. Deteriorated historic features will be repaired rather than replaced. Where the severity of deterioration requires replacement of a distinctive feature, the new feature will match the old in design, color, texture and, where possible, materials. Replacement of missing features will be substantiated by documentary and physical evidence.
